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Volume XXX, Issue 3
September 9, 2004
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ff campus in apartments. Elon reached an agreement to lease several apartments at the University Pointe apartment com-
Some students choose ® favorably with other campus housing locations.
plex. Students say the rent comp
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Elon University reached an
with Hackett Properties
agreeme University
to lease apartments mu
Pointe Apartment complex on W
fS'gil Drive. su.tot» smted
moving into the new apartments
the cost Of $465 and $450 respec
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it k new construction,
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kitchen appliances, ntey® on
„pper scale, in terms of price,
because of those amenities.
The school currently leases
apartments in Danieley, Elon Place
Gardens, Elon Place Townhomes,
Five Villas and Haggard Square.
Kate Miller, a sophomore who
lived in Danieley last year, said the
apartments are worth every penny.
“It’s so much better,” Miller said.
“I liked where I lived last year but I
like having my own room and my
own bathroom. It’s a lot quieter off
campus. It’s the same price as living
in a single room on campus so it’s
the same but $200 more per semes
ter and for all that we get—the
amenities and stuff—I think it’s
worth it. “
On-campus housing can accom
modate 2,700 students, Floyd said.
Students often turn to off-campus
apartments to live after their sopho
more year.
“This year we had 1,252 fresh
men that came,” Floyd said. “Each
year we try to balance out, in the
spring, how many juniors and sen
iors will remain on campus because
they’re not guaranteed housing. We
try to balance out those numbers
and roughly have about 500 juniors
and seniors that remain in on-cam
pus housing.”
Students apply to live in univer-
sity-leased apartments in the spring
during the housing application
process.
“Every student has the. opportu
nity to apply for an apartment when
they go through housing selection,”
Floyd said. “We offer current apart
ment residents [a chance] to renew
their lease. It’s an 11-and-a-half-
month lease.”
Floyd said the school has plans
to expand its on-campus housing
capability.
“We have looked at some new
construction as far as new facilities
probably near the business school,”
she said. “We’ve visited other cam
puses in the area and looked at their
facilities and some of the things that
we’ve heard from students that they
wanted; smaller suite areas, com
mon rooms. We have a mock-up of
plans incorporating those things.”
Floyd also said a number of
obstacles face the construction of
new on-campus facilities.
“We’re very, very early in the
process,” she said. “We still have to
get it approved by the Board of
Trustees and get bonds and other
funding for it. but we’re moving in
that direction in the next three to
five years.”
New housing will be necessary
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